by Barbara RUBIN
1963 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / 2 screens / 30' 00
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“Christmas on Earth, made by the seventeen-year old novice Barbara Rubin with a 16mm Bolex borrowed from Jonas Mekas, is one of the most sexually explicit, beautifully hallucinatory films to emerge from the 1960s. Rubin’s method of projecting two reels simultaneously, superimposed and within one another, is a radical gesture in which the young filmmaker addresses the singularly male point of view of the experimental film community and suggests a poetic metaphor for the sexual interpenetration of bodies she so ecstatically depicts.” – Ara Osterweil
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